My boss asked me to edit the company web page. What information will I need to request to access the old site?

Question

I am fairly computer savvy. I m an admin on a fan forum and have made HTML web pages in the past. But that was long ago. My boss called and said my name was mentioned. They need to update information on the company website.

What information will i need to request from them so i will be able to access and make changes to the current one?

Web hosts, ftps, passwords, etc?

And is there any other easy HTML editors that will make this job easy.
(I Have Microsoft office, but am not opposed to any other helpful tools form the web.).

Answer 1

Allan, for the love of God or whatever deity you follow, recognize the fact that if you have to ask these questions, you are not qualified. Especially with a company image. Your boss is a cheap b****ard who is avoiding paying someone what they deserve who knows that they are doing.



Sure, you can probably muddle through it, you can probably impress your boss, but this is the cause of crappy web sites on the web - people think they can do it and are clueless about the real effects of amateur web publishing.



It's not just about "how it looks" or just the content. "Anyone can build a web page" is absolutely true - but those of is that do it for a living can spot a crap site in a hot second, and identify all the reasons why it fails - cross browser compatibility, accessibility, usability, validation, SEO, hundreds of reasons.



If you ignore all this (as you and all the thumbs down amateurs will) consider also that this is a COMMERCIAL site for a BUSINESS which now opens up a whole list of LIABILITIES.



Do you remember this?



http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9003129/Court_Accessibility_lawsuit_against_Target_can_proceed



http://jimthatcher.com/law-target.htm



This suit sets new presidents for commercial web sites.



Sure, you can "play the odds" and justify it, "only our customers will visit the site, none of this applies to us, we never had a problem . . . " but it's like stealing content and copyright violation: do you want to risk your company's reputation on all of this?



Sure you do. Go ahead . . . . ignore me.

Answer 2

FTP address, login and password.



Add a new network place - use the FTP address, login and password. That makes it almost trivial. Open that network place, put in the password (or save it) and the files are "on your computer".



I use Edit Plus, but Notepad Plus (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php ) is pretty good too. You should be writing HTML (and CSS and anything else you need) - using a WYSIWYG editor will give you a simple site, but won't allow you to get into the code to make changes to it and still know what's happening to the code.



If you don't have the expertise, ask the boss to send you for training on website development. (There are a few pretty good 1 week courses.)



DO NOT use Office to work on websites. Unless the site runs on a Microsoft server (it shouldn't be), you'll just turn it into garbage, even if you know what you're doing, unless you spend MANY hours ripping out the crap Office thinks is HTML. (Microsoft still thinks they set the standards on the web. Everyone else - like real web servers - which is the vast majority of the web - still ignores them and uses the real standards.)

Answer 3

Hi there,

To easily edit your web pages use Kompozer. A good free tool available for download here http://bitly.com/1rH1TBn

Very useful program!

Good Bye

Answer 4

You need The FTP User name and the password to edit the existing page.Then Down load that page edit and upload again.



Ref:http://www.prismtechnology.in

Answer 5

You will need ftp server details, username, password, port i.d, an ftp client like Filezilla etc



Any text editor can edit html pageshtml, but personally I use this:



http://www.coffeecup.com/free-editor/

Answer 6

Good. I think it is to the tune of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland".